CVE-2020-1228: Windows DNS Denial of Service Vulnerability
Microsoft · Windows Server version 2004
Vendor fix available · Affected: Microsoft Windows Server version 2004 · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 91% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
<p>A denial of service vulnerability exists in Windows DNS when it fails to properly handle queries. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause the DNS service to become nonresponsive.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker could send malicious DNS queries to a target, resulting in a denial of service.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Windows DNS processes queries.</p>
Affected products16
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Microsoft · Windows Server version 2004from 10.0.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2019from 10.0.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2019 (Server Core installation)from 10.0.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server, version 1909 (Server Core installation)from 10.0.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)from 10.0.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2016from 10.0.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2016 (Server Core installation)from 10.0.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2from 6.0.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)from 6.0.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2from 6.0.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1from 6.1.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)from 6.0.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2012from 6.2.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)from 6.2.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 R2from 6.3.0 before publication
- Microsoft · Windows Server 2012 R2 (Server Core installation)from 6.3.0 before publication
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- Exploitation
- Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Published
- September 2020
CoverageNo articles yet
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